Jews and the American soul: human nature in the twentieth century

Abstract

List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii INTRODUCTION: Jews and the American Soul 1 PART I. One Nation under Stress, Divisible: Jewish Immigrants and the National Psyche CHAPTER 1: Jews and the Psychodynamics of American Life 11 PART II. The Moral Universe of the Jews CHAPTER 2: Benjamin Franklin in Hebrew: The Musar Sage of Philadelphia 39 CHAPTER 3: Jews and the Crisis of the Psyche 50 CHAPTER 4: Freud and Adler: The Rise of Jewish Psychoanalytic Moralism 64 PART III. Jewish Morality and the Psychological Shift of American Culture ,1890-1945 CHAPTER 5: Popular Psychology: The Great American Synthesis of Religion and Science 87 CHAPTER 6: Jewish Psychological Evangelism: A Collective Biography of the First Generation 103 CHAPTER 7: The Moronic Immigrant and the Neurotic Jew: Jews and American Perceptions of Intelligence, Personality, and Race 140 CHAPTER 8: The Specter of the Mob: Jews and the Battle for the American Unconscious 165 PART IV. Peace of Mind: Judaism and the Therapeutic Polemics of Postwar America CHAPTER 9: Rabbi Liebman and the Psychic Pain of the World War II Generation 195 CHAPTER 10: Peace of Mind :A New Jewish Gospel of Love 217 CHAPTER 11: Clare Boothe Luce and the Catholic-Jewish Clash over Freud in America 241 PART V. Jews and the American Search for Meaning, 1950-2000 CHAPTER 12: Jews and the Creation of American Humanism 261 CHAPTER 13: Joyce Brothers: The Jewish Woman as Psychologist of Suburban America 295 CHAPTER 14: Holocaust, Hasidism, Suffering, Redemption 321 Conclusion 349 Notes 353 Index 419